Prof. Edna Cabecinha is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) in the Department of Biology and Environment. She completed her PhD in Environmental Sciences in 2008 (UTAD), an MSc in Environmental Technology in 2002 at the University of Minho (School of Engineering) and a BSc in Biophysical Engineering in 1998 at the University of Évora. She is the Vice Director of the Doctoral College of UTAD, and a Course Director and Member of the Academic and Executive Committee of the International Doctoral Program in Marine Science, Technology, and Management (Do*Mar). She was also Course Director of the MSc in Environmental Engineering (2013–2021) and BSc in Environmental Sciences at UTAD (2013–2021), and aember of the Pedagogical Council of the School of Life and Environmental Sciences in UTAD (2013–2021). She is also co-lead of the Nature-based Solutions Thematic Group of the Commission on Ecosystem Management of IUCN—International Union for Conservation of Nature and a member of the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP), the ESP Working Group on Modelling ES, the International Council for Exploration of the Sea, ICES Working Group on Resilience and Marine Ecosystem Services (ICES WG RMES), and the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER). Her research topics mainly include landscape management, climate change, ecological modelling, ecosystem restoration, ecosystem services and nature-based solutions.
